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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBetween a wall and a hard place: what now for Hondurans in Tijuana?
Who could have imagined that a group of poor people with little more than plastic flip-flops on their feet and 200...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaTobacco lobby and smugling in Mexico
In May 2004, Mexico ratified the Framework Agreement on Tobacco Control (CMTC). Today, 14 years later, anti-smoking...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow Canada marijuana legalization impacts on Latin American drug policy?
Marijuana in Canada is now legal, and while the change is unlikely to have a significant impact on Latin America’s...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#CaravanaMigrante: 5 keys to understand the phenomenon challenging Trump
The humanitarian crisis provoked by thousands of migrants that dream of obtaining asylum in the US has the entire...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaA new caravan from Honduras heads for the American Dream
It remains to be seen if Mexico will allow this new caravan to pass safely through their country as they did last...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFifty years after the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968
Massive student demonstrations against violence have swept through Mexico City in September. Today's students face...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAMLO and Mexican women’s fight for equality
The next Mexican cabinet will be gender equal. But it is unclear whether Andrés Manuel López Obrador will give the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#AMLO in Mexico: What are the two greatest challenges of the new president?
Among the greatest challenges that new Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador faces, violence and corruption...
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Published in: 50.50Meet the women poets preserving indigenous languages in Mexico
“When you lose a language, you lose a whole culture," says Ana Chino Miguel, one of the women working to prevent...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAirport, transparency and the new government in Mexico
As President, AMLO should develop real policies aimed at combatting the legal and financial structures in Mexico...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFrom Mexico to India: the need for new paradigms to eradicate gender based violence
The rankings of the worst countries in the world to be a woman usually list Yemen, India, Pakistan, Chad, Syria and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMexico’s new president and energy reform
After choosing a new president on July 1st, Mexico must now decide whether to use its Energy Transition Law to...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMexico: López Obrador wins. Now, the inequality challenge
The main problem in Mexico is inequality. The second biggest problem in the country is... inequality. Español
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Published in: 50.50Finding ‘Yo Real’: fighting machismo in Mexico City
Machismo is widespread in Mexico. One organisation takes aim at ‘negative masculinities’ with weekly group classes. Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhat can be done with a polarised Mexico after the elections?
Democracy in Mexico is in a permanent state of construction and it will continue as such after the presidential...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHomo homini lupus est: trauma and child abuse in U.S. refugee policy
Terrified children kept in cages disturbed the world. And then, president Trump, on camera, resumed his cynical...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaElections, polarisation and frustration in Mexico
Social and political polarisation, the assent of populism, and the blurring of the political parties are a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMexican elections: the security issue
Mexico’s next president will have to revamp the country’s security policy framework, which for more than a decade...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMexico on the edge of a dystopian cliff
Mexico is on the edge of a dystopian cliff. What is at stake in the upcoming presidential elections is the remnant...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMexico in the time of the caravan
Central American migrants march through Mexico once again this Easter to protest against the conditions they face in...